Mortimer Cobb has never heard of Werner Heisenberg or Alfred North Whitehead. He lives in a cubicle inside Central Intelligence on the planet of Casseopeia. People aren't people on Casseopeia - people are Aesops. And for using the word, "people" Dr. Cobb could very easily get transported to one of the outlying settlements that skirt Pacifica like arms galactic. People, in his opinion, and among a small group of colleagues for whom his opinion is nothing less than fact, had unlocked the morphogenetic code and been summarily harvested by the creatrix.